Ezra 10:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ Less than three days later, all of the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered together on the twentieth day^[a] of the ninth month. Everyone sat in the plaza of the Temple of God, trembling because of everything that was happening, and also because it was raining heavily. ¹⁰ Ezra the priest stood up and spoke to them, “You have sinned by marrying foreign wives, thereby increasing the transgressions of Israel. ¹¹ Now confess this to the Lord God of your ancestors, and separate yourselves from the people who live in the land and from foreign wives.”